Inside Xena: Warrior Princess

Hey all! Here is a little bit of inside info I got from a part time actor of Xena: Warrior Princess. I will add more quotes as I get them.

August 19 '98:- there is an Autolycus episode in season
four that will be a huge musical number with lots of silly dancing and
singing (Bruce does a HILARIOUS Elvis impersonation - this episode is
directed by Michael Hurst) and there will also be an episode where
Gabrielle and Xena travel to India. -

August 21 '98:-Yeah a bunch of insane extras (including myself) have had quite a few
laughs with him. (Bruce Campbell-Autolycus) Again, he doesn't know us personally but whenever we see
each other he remembers us and we start doing stupid things like making
funny voices and we keep asking him to do say lines from "Brisco County"
and "Evil Dead". He's a really funny guy. I asked him how he got that
deep scar on his chin and he told me a crazed mime bit him :)

August 23 '98:- You see we (in "Vanishing Act") were
supposed to be villagers in a huge village, but there were only sixteen or
so extras (there were supposed to be hundreds of people in this village).
So what they did was they photographed each and every one of us partying
and acting happy and drunk INDIVIDUALLY and then scanned us into a
computer. Then they multiplied us. So in this shot, while it looks like
there's hundreds of people, there's only about ten or so people, just
CLONED. I'm cloned there too - about four - five times from memory :)

August 26 '98:-(There's gonna be a new musical episode like "The Bitter
Suite" in season 4. Here is what he said about it) The musical episode
was done by a friend of mine. It's got Bruce (Campbell, Autolycus)
doing a great Elvis-type impersonation as well as Xena and Gabrielle doing
some HILARIOUS dancing apparently. It all takes place in someplace called
the "temple of Calliopes" or something. *shrug* (Here's what he said about
Lucy) Yeah she's pretty cool. I mean considering all the shite she's gone
thru
in her life to come out on tops like she has is pretty impressive. It's
about time we got some female heroes in this world! People like Lucy and
Renee and Gillian Anderson and people like that.

September 1 '98:-(I asked him if he knew anything personal stuff on Renee or
Lucy. This is what he said) Ermm...hmmm....well lesse.
I dunno if Renee is married or not (as i don't
keep track of the show much), but there is a guy who comes and visits her a
lot. I'm assuming that's her husband/boyfriend/whatever. I've not talked to
him so I dont' know
if he's a pretty cool guy or not. On the set, Renee's APPEARS to be really
really shy and doesn't talk much to the guest-stars or the extras.
As for Lucy....to tell you the truth I really haven't had a chance to size
her up properly at all. I've met her, she's absolutely
WONDERFUL and charming and she would walk around, say hello to all the new
people on set, sit and talk to them, sometimes eat lunch with the extras
(extras eat outside or in a different tent from the main cast and crew)
and, once, she played this really hilarious prank on these two guys
(extras) from the Hercules set who were smoking near her trailer. She
snuck up behind them, grabbed them on the shoulders and SCREAMED at the top
of her voice "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING NEAR MY TRAILER!!!!!!". The
two guys went absolutely pale and looked like they were going to piss
themselves, but then suddenly she BURSTS out laughing and tells them she
was just kidding and apologized for her sick sense of humour.
She's one of the very few women I've met in my life who're bigger
than me and have more muscular thighs and forearms than me and I'm going to
keep my distance....just in case *smile*
As for Michael Hurst (Iolaus)
he's got the funniest sense of humour I've ever seen in
a person. And he's also got a 2 year old son who's REALLY cute and sweet,
but he runs all over the set though and seems to like playing with the
extra's which can be really irritating when you're trying to work
sometimes.
(I then asked about the "Lucy wearing a wig" rumours)
SOMETIMES...her
hair is a wig as opposed to the real thing (I once worked on an episode
where she had REALLY short hair and they put a wig on her).

Well, that's all for now :o) Hopefully I will have more later on. Thank you to Poe for the info and good luck on the audition!